Review: Penny Coffin – Transitory Fragmentation

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th November 2026 The debut full length from Penny Coffin, one of Scotland’s Big Four of extreme metal alongside Tyrannus, Coffin Mulch and Hellripper, is coming out at last and comes on the heels of a couple of excellent small releases like 2021’s ‘ΤΕΦΡΑ/ΣΚΕΛΕΤΙΚΟ ΣΚΟΤΑΔΙ’ and 2023’s ‘Conscripted Morality’ EP. But as ever with these things, I always like to see if a band can build upon the goodwill and potential of their initial releases and give us a full length to be proud of. Well, ‘Transitory Fragmentation’ is here at last, looking to give me the answer to that question, and it’ll be released through Bandcamp in just a few weeks. Opener ‘Murder Music Orchestration’ is the relentless, Bolt Thrower meets Morbid Angel bulldozer we’d hope all death metal album openers were; forged of an intense rolling groove and swirling, sickening guitar tones accompanied by some real psychotic sounding vocals. There’s a lead solo near the end that could’ve been…